Energy Efficient Lighting Solutions: A Good Idea!

By EcoAlign, March 30, 2011

Americans have much greater levels of support for energy efficient lighting than anticipated. Despite the attempts to roll back the legislation that phases-out the traditional but inefficient incandescent light bulbs, two-thirds of the consumers feel that phasing out and replacing them with energy efficient lighting solutions is a good idea.

However, Sixty percent of Americans were unaware of a federal law requiring a 28 percent improvement in lighting efficiency, effectively phasing out most traditional incandescent lamps.

“The City of Callaway, Florida recently received an Energy Grant from the State of Florida for the purpose of upgrading several components within multiple City buildings. A significant part of the grant was the upgrade of lighting within the buildings from T-12 & T-8 to T-5 light fixtures. Due to the cost of replacement of each light and stay within the designated budget we opted to use the retrofit kits designed by LUXADD. We found the kits to be very cost effective in both supplies and manpower for installation and allowed us to meet the state requirements while staying within budget.

The people at LUXADD were extremely helpful in guiding us through the materials needed and sent a representative onsite to help with the installation. All the employees were very professional and went above and beyond to make the project work while being under a very tight deadline.

The LUXADD retro kits have proven to be a valuable asset for this program and we will look forward to working with the products and staff in future projects.”

Bobby Baker, Interim City Manager/ Public Works Director - City of Callaway, FL